Famous quotes containing the words national, convention, construction and/or reform:
“It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier mud in front of his door than any other man can afford.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)
“No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“There’s no art
To find the mind’s construction in the face.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)